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A DICER protein, known to produce tiny RNAs in cells, also helps complete an important step in gene expression. Gene expression, when an organism's DNA is... Read More »
Researchers at New York University and University of California, Los Angeles have developed a method called ‘DNA Molecular Recognition’ that uses... Read More »
A hidden and never before recognized layer of information in the genetic code has been uncovered by a team of scientists at the University of California, San... Read More »
A team of researchers has designed a gene therapy strategy that could treat the red blood cell disorders beta-thalassemia disease and sickle cell anemia. They also... Read More »
The H1N1 flu pandemic in 2009 underscored weaknesses in methods to diagnose the flu, from frequent false negatives to long wait times for results. Now a four-year... Read More »
Researchers have created a nanoscale sensor to electronically read the sequence of a single DNA molecule quickly and cheaply. This new technique could make DNA... Read More »
Gene synthesis has become an important tool in many fields of recombinant DNA technology, including vaccine development, gene therapy and molecular engineering. The... Read More »
Researchers at the Johns Hopkins Kimmel Cancer Center proposed two drugs, rejected by cancer experts for being too toxic in standard high doses, for possible cancer... Read More »
Memorial Sloan-Kettering Cancer Center (MSKCC) and IBM have agreed to collaborate on the development of a physician support tool built upon the IBM Watson computing... Read More »
Using a new technology, scientists have created a ‘nanoslinky’ that manipulates and measures DNA molecules and other nanoscale materials. On the nanoscale ... Read More »
Mayo Clinic researchers have trained mouse immune systems to eradicate skin cancer from within, using a genetic combination of human DNA from melanoma cells and a... Read More »
Researchers have discovered a method to identify chromosomal translocations -- cancer-causing rearrangements of genetic material -- quickly, accurately and... Read More »
A research team from Kansas State University, led by professor Mark Weiss, has perfected a technique that uses stem cells to study targeted genetic modifications... Read More »
A research team led by scientists at Duke-NUS Graduate Medical School in Singapore have identified a genetic variation that causes some patients to not respond to... Read More »
Researchers from the Rett Syndrome Research Trust and the Rett Syndrome Research Trust UK have found that a bone marrow transplant can arrest some of the symptoms of... Read More »
Exercise alters your DNA ... well, sort of. Your DNA is not really altered. Exercise cannot rewrite your genetic code. I’m sorry, but exercising will not... Read More »
Geneticist Michael Snyder has almost no privacy. For more than two years, he and his lab members at Stanford University pored over his body’s most intimate... Read More »
Watching too much TV can worsen your genetic tendency towards obesity, but you can cut the effect in half by walking briskly for an hour a day, researchers report at... Read More »
Scientists have identified a compound that rapidly kills hepatocellular carcinoma (HCC) cells, the most common form of liver cancer, while sparing healthy... Read More »
A research team at Tufts University has identified epigenetic signatures of reprogrammed cells. These signatures are markers on DNA that can can control changes in... Read More »